Following Essex Boys (1999) and Rise of the Footsoldier (2006), this is the third British crime film inspired by a gangland massacre in 1995 in rural Essex, the culmination of a drug war that led to the deaths by multiple shotgun blasts of three celebrated villains and the conviction of their two murderers on the evidence of a supergrass who drove the getaway car. The movie is even more violent than its predecessors, the language reaches levels of obscenity that would make David Mamet blench and uses the real names of everyone concerned. It does not, however, cast any new light on the case and accepts at face value evidence given at the murder trial that many investigators have challenged.